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  RE: https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5o6k7jvowuyaquloafzn3cfw/post/3mybqkrxzbk2x I love how Meta’s reaction is always “oops, that was totally an innocuous mistake. But don’t try to allege malice simply because it keeps happening again and again and again that we empower authoritarian strongmen our CEO has a crush on because he’s a lame dweeb”

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  Feels a little weird linking a site called "oilprice.com" to report this news, but EV sales have surpassed ICE car sales globally for the first time ever, thanks to the Straight of Hormuz crisis: https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Fuel-Price-Shock-Pushes-Global-Gas-Car-Sales-Below-50-for-First-Time.html

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  For context I hate Ronald Reagan and think he’s responsible for a lot of what’s wrong with America today, but it’s kind of mind boggling just how much worse Trump is: Ronald Reagan: “An attack on Munich is the same as an attack on Chicago” Trump: just doubled down on his claim it’s okay for Iran to wipe out an American city if it’s in California, giving LA and San Diego as examples https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6r7yn8pknyxo #uspol

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  Apparently it’s 99F (37C) in Los Angeles in October https://abc7.com/post/los-angeles-weather-temperatures-southern-california/58983/ #climatecrisis

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  Apparently there are two hurricanes barreling down on the US simultaneously: Hurricane Rachel is set to impact Southern California, and Hurricane Isaias becomes the first Atlantic hurricane of 2026 and is currently undergoing rapid intensification before it makes landfall in the Gulf of Mexico somewhere around Mobile, Alabama https://weather.com/2026/10/08/storms/hurricane/tropical-storm-hurricane-isaias-gulf-coast-louisiana-florida #ClimateCrisis

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  I’m eating dangerously in America… I just bought some lettuce #uspol

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  I’m generally not a fan of capital punishment (see the recent botched execution in Tennessee as one example why), but I’m especially not a fan of public executions, WTF. The Trump Administration are a bunch of fucking barbarians. https://abcnews.com/Politics/hegseth-hasan-execution-public/story?id=137110734 #uspol

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  Watching MS NOW and there’s a (very depressed sounding) military analyst on who had an interesting perspective on Trump’s batshit insane rant about how it would be a “small price to pay” if LA or San Diego were “wiped off the map”: potentially he’s leaking military intelligence that Iran was considering attacking those cities #uspol

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  The magic macOS command I wish I've known for a million years: $ defaults write com.apple.loginwindow TALLogoutSavesState -bool false Don't reboot every damn app under the sun every time you restart your OS. Let an OS restart be a blissful clean slate where you can reopen the apps you actually want to use. WTF Apple, why is it so hard to experience this zen state of no apps unless you explicitly check a goddamn box when you restart the OS that says "I would like an OS...

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  Tired: “We should be afraid of AI” Wired: “We should be afraid of the people building AI” https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/joseph-gordon-levitt-concern-people-building-ai-1236727031/

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  I used to be annoyed by people who narrated YouTube videos who would show their face as they spoke into microphones for being narcissists but for now I take it as a positive sign that the narrator is actually human. I’ve now seen too many videos I’m now convinced are AI narrated. Especially when they glitch out.

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  @pinkforest maybe it’s when the AI generated videos have British accents but some of them are so good I don’t notice right away

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  Ugh, Trump tried this his first administration when he made Former Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson and he tried to cut a deal with Russia’s Rosneft for their oil. https://www.rferl.org/amp/congress-legislation-trump-russia-diesel-exports/33874424.html #uspol

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  Trump is moving to the full blown coup stage. Rep. Ilhan Omar blasts federal criminal raid on home: 'I will not be silenced' https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/10/12/ilhan-omar-home-raided-dhs-immigration-investigation.html #uspol

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  Netflix’s “AI Gone Wild” documentary is pretty crazy and I’m really glad they made a documentary that accessible about the Hugging Face incident but I couldn’t get over the fact the dude they have to be the contrarian point of view had no fucking clue what he was talking about and seemed just as clueless and egocentric about AI as the rest of the documentary’s subjects. He made some analogy about AI turning everything into paperclips and insisted it’s 15 years old and I’m like oh my god you’re...

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  Even Karl Rove thinks the Republicans have a Nazi problem and laments corrupt philanderer Ken Paxton as their Senate nominee for Texas https://www.sacurrent.com/news/politics-and-elections/karl-rove-says-republican-party-is-being-taken-over-by-nazis/ #uspol

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  Trump Administration success stories, indirect and diametrically opposed to their actual intended policy: - accelerating global fossil fuel divestment by making fossil fuel more expensive by invading Iran - making Americans eat less beef by making beef more expensive via batshit insane tariff policies https://www.huffpost.com/entry/brooke-rollins-beef-prices-trump_n_6ab29ecfe4b085277b53a8d0 #uspol

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  The true challenge before the Democratic Party is to prosecute the Republican Party for their many, many, many, many crimes including crimes against the Constitution. But I feel like the DCCC feels the Republicans are practically their friends compared to the DSA members of their own party. #uspol

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  Who would want to destroy the International Criminal Court? People who are worried about their very serious war crimes being prosecuted there, of course. "US pressures NATO allies to destroy International Criminal Court" https://www.politico.eu/article/us-pressure-nato-allies-international-criminal-court-icc/ #uspol

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  SMR status update: same as it ever was. Two repurposed Russian naval reactors on a barge remain the only grid-connected SMRs in the world. They’re 35MW for a total of 70MW. China is still yet to produce a single grid connected SMR, though Linglong One (ACP100) may be soonish. Years after China started the ACP100 program it started working on Hualong One, a new domestic design for a traditional light water reactor. The first connected to the grid in 2021. There are now 10, with dozens more in t...

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  The Arctic is cooking. Across northern Russia—a region that is famously bitter cold—temperatures this week have routinely surpassed 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32.2 degrees Celsius), adding to the mountain of broken heat records this summer has racked up so far. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-90-degrees-in-the-arctic-right-now/ Paywall removed: https://archive.ph/X1z2s #ClimateCrisis

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  One of my biggest, most hated lies (particularly when spread by Bitcoiners) is that gas flaring is good for the environment. No, no it is not. This is the worst and possibly most successful bit of greenwashing next to single use plastics. Idiots will routinely spout “It’s good that they’re doing this and it’s better than the alternative!” Methane having a much higher GWP than CO2 doesn’t mean gas flaring is “good for the environment”. The real alternative is Flare Gas Recovery Systems (FGRS),...

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  Judge questions why Pete Hegseth can give testosterone to cis men but not trans men Trans people have been banned from the military over claims their care costs too much. The judge asked why that’s not true of the same care for cis people. https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/07/judge-questions-why-pete-hegseth-can-give-testosterone-to-cis-men-but-not-trans-men/ #uspol

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  The GOP isn’t just denying the climate crisis, it’s actively engineering worker heat deaths. https://www.commondreams.org/news/republicans-worker-heat-protections #uspol

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  If we’re going to do geoengineering/SRM the first thing we need to do is have a computer model showing how it would work where scientists agree the benefits outweigh the costs. It seems most people interested in the topic aren’t actually interested in doing that work and skip straight to the part where they pollute the environment with ballons filled with a highly toxic, corrosive pollutant https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/science/in-2022-a-california-startup-began-floating-sulphur-filled-b...

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  Oh cool America is starting the water wars. Great job ya lot of war criminals. https://www.commondreams.org/news/iran-water-desalination-plants #uspol

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  Once again watching this video reflecting on America’s greatest mistake being the thought it could do any better. Crumbling decadent empires. https://youtu.be/3NPxqXMZq7o #uspol

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  America: where the Founders thought that the main way to punish crimes committed by the President was a conviction through the impeachment process, for which they set an impossibly high bar #uspol

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  I like to consider myself fairly knowledgable about the history of nuclear disasters but TIL one of the greatest releases (possibly #2 after Church Rock, making TMI #4 overall) of radioactive material ever to happen in the US was deliberately engineered, which is why it doesn’t show up if you look for “accident” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Run

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  Sorry, are Trump’s roving death gangs openly threating to murder Democrats after their recent killing spree? America is becoming a dark, dark place. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/tom-homan-ice-shootings-democrat-b3015843.html #uspol